Last week, I looked at the arrival of Frank Frager in the US and the murder of the man he had come here with. The murder remained unsolved and a year and a half afterward. The state of the case was summarized in an article along with other unsolved mysteries, and the newspaper opined that, […]
Reader and Capitol Hill resident Johanna Elsemore recently wrote in with an incredible story of iron-like endurance, cleverness and the help and support of friends and neighbors on and off the Hill. Elsemore’s husband, Courtney Tate, had been training hard for the IRONMAN Maryland race, which was supposed to take place on September 19. The […]
For the next couple of weeks, in honor of the 100th anniversary of the opening of Frager’s Hardware Store, I am going to do what I do best: Look at its history, and particularly at the three men who carried the name Frager who were involved in its success. The story begins in Russia. It […]
It’s Labor Day, and so time for another rerun, and one that once again combines two of my interests: Airships and the Capitol. It’s something that I have written about and touched upon in the past, but here’s my favorite story again. On October 11, 1928, the airship Graf Zeppelin took off from Friedrichshafen, in […]
I promised last week to look at the state that the Capitol was in during the 19th century, building on the rather dire description given of it by Charles Dickens in 1842, but realized that I have to put that off for a bit in order to introduce a new character before continuing. While today […]